I Am Back With Karaoke!

Konichiwa everybody!

I am back to blogging and this time with a short recollection about our first karaoke experience. This happened Wednesday two weeks ago.

We met with a guy named Zack, which Caspar met some time ago and whom we have spent a few Wednesday nights with, and some of his friends in Shinjuku, one of the bigger party areas of Tokyo, to try out what it had to offer us karaoke wise. First, though, we went to a bar to get a drink first. Here we all got to talk with each other before going to sing. One of Zack's friends, Thomas, is also a keen photographer and he was actually interested in buying a lens that I rarely use. I have been wanting to get a different lens instead of the one I don't use, and if I can sell it, I can use the money to get the other lens - yay!

Anyways, we also met Reed and his wife Ami which are two of Thomas' friends. Everybody seemed friendly and open minded and it was a good indicator for how the evening eventually would turn out.

After one drink we all went to the karaoke bar and got a room with a karaoke set and free drinks for two hours for 1600 yen. It was a very tight fit in the room for all of us, but we had a lot of fun singing almost all genres of music and ordering beers. Below is a photo of the room and the people.

(From lower left to right it is Reed, Ami, Thomas, 

Annette, Zack, me, and Casuparu)

Some songs were uite difficult to sing for some of us, though. Especially as they were in Japanese. Below is a picture of Zack (pretty much fluent in Japanese) singing a Japanese song with Caspar on the other microphone already giving up on following the text on the TV.

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After the karaoke, we went to different bars around Shinjuku having a very amusing night.

The Wednesday after, we ended up in one of the same bars with Zack and another of his friends from work. Without me noticing it, we had made a slight impression on some of the regulars at that bar and that night I ended up speaking to an American guy who had lived in Sweden for three years and we had most of our conversation in Scandee speak. Just a fun little piece of information for you there. Below is a photo of us on that night with me, Klyve, Zack, Annettu and Casuparu.

Okay, this was a short one. More to follow! Rugby will be next on my list of things to blog about.

Enjoy the anticipation!